If you find the Flag of the Country you're in to be a symbol of fear, maybe you shouldn't be in that Country. PERIOD.

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Commie? No relevance whatsoever.

Free to accept federal funds or not. As a college or university the expectation to fly the flag with pride isn't a big deal.

When I worked for a managed care organization a health care provider could contract or take our money or not. If they did there were requirements. One of which was to place some signage at the door and other places. They could refuse and we wouldn't pay.

Something for nothing and just the expectation of a golden egg is commie.

By the way there is often strings attached with federal funds. This would be one of the least intrusive. It could be limited to institutions of higher learning if we choose. We are paying to educate our kids and expect a minimum standard just like curriculum.

They have a federal flag. They are being disrespectful with it as an institution. Let's pull their federal funds. If we can't legally let's learn from that and set it up for next time.

Click it or ticket. The libs do this all the time. I hear it's the new black.

LOL perfect!

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Let's defund all institutions like this.
Then freedom of speech can be freer.

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Dr. Everett Piper, President

Oklahoma Wesleyan University

This past week, I actually had a student come forward after a university chapel service and complain because he felt “victimized” by a sermon on the topic of 1 Corinthians 13. It appears this young scholar felt offended because a homily on love made him feel bad for not showing love. In his mind, the speaker was wrong for making him, and his peers, feel uncomfortable.

I’m not making this up. Our culture has actually taught our kids to be this self-absorbed and narcissistic. Any time their feelings are hurt, they are the victims. Anyone who dares challenge them and, thus, makes them “feel bad” about themselves, is a “hater,” a “bigot,” an “oppressor,” and a “victimizer.”

I have a message for this young man and all others who care to listen. That feeling of discomfort you have after listening to a sermon is called a conscience. An altar call is supposed to make you feel bad. It is supposed to make you feel guilty. The goal of many a good sermon is to get you to confess your sins—not coddle you in your selfishness. The primary objective of the Church and the Christian faith is your confession, not your self-actualization.

So here’s my advice:

If you want the chaplain to tell you you’re a victim rather than tell you that you need virtue, this may not be the university you’re looking for. If you want to complain about a sermon that makes you feel less than loving for not showing love, this might be the wrong place.

If you’re more interested in playing the “hater” card than you are in confessing your own hate; if you want to arrogantly lecture, rather than humbly learn; if you don’t want to feel guilt in your soul when you are guilty of sin; if you want to be enabled rather than confronted, there are many universities across the land (in Missouri and elsewhere) that will give you exactly what you want, but Oklahoma Wesleyan isn’t one of them.

At OKWU, we teach you to be selfless rather than self-centered. We are more interested in you practicing personal forgiveness than political revenge. We want you to model interpersonal reconciliation rather than foment personal conflict. We believe the content of your character is more important than the color of your skin. We don’t believe that you have been victimized every time you feel guilty and we don’t issue “trigger warnings” before altar calls.

Oklahoma Wesleyan is not a “safe place”, but rather, a place to learn: to learn that life isn’t about you, but about others; that the bad feeling you have while listening to a sermon is called guilt; that the way to address it is to repent of everything that’s wrong with you rather than blame others for everything that’s wrong with them. This is a place where you will quickly learn that you need to grow up.

This is not a day care. This is a university.





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I do love me some Dr. Piper.

Sounds like that delicate little flower is a Republican. You guys should toughen them up or they aren't going to survive in the real world.

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On the OP, unless federal funding is written as contingent on display of the flag I see no reason why the two are related. If the government wants to start making it contingent going forward, that is always an option.

More importantly, since when is not flying a flag considered "disrespectful " to the flag? I'm not wearing a flag pin today... oh no. I see individuals flying the flag upside-down throughout Obama presidency, in fact I'm sure some pictures were posted here of such and while I know the difference between individual rights and an institution, if an action is disrespectful for one it is for all (one just has more freedom to be disrespectful)... no one made a single comment about that here.

This is a big WGAF. Write a story when they have school organized burnings, that's a story.

just a symptom of a larger problem... 😟

The whole story is ridiculous.
If they don't want to fly the flag, who cares.
Doesn't affect my life one way or another.

Maybe they should fly it upside down.
Seems like that is accepted by our RWNJ friends.

http://www.infowars.com/fly-your-flags-upside-down/ 

Unreal. I can see an individual protesting this way, but not an institution.

Another right wing site trying to profit by improperly displaying the flag:
http://www.politifake.org/america-under-distress-battaile-politics-24770.html 

You mean the comming conservative sensorship and move towards a theocracy? 😕

My bad - I thought the suggestion on the table was to require collages to fly the flag is they accepted funding. THAT would be kinda communist. I mean we all share the benefits of freedom - what should anyone have to display a flag?

It would be like telling retired folks that if they want their social security, well - go buy a flag....

True enough.....BUT we do NOT all enjoy free tax dollars. 😳

So with both want to be 1%'ers.....